St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-25
They VIII Possibly Be Let Loose
on Great Britain by the United
States,
Unless There is Some Cessation to
the 0utrages Perpetrated by
Canada
On American Fishermen, Who Have Been
Abused, Maltreated and Finan-
cially DespOiled.
The Senate Clearly Indicates Purpose to
Garry Retaliation to the Uttermost
Limits,
And. AS a Preliminary Step, Almost
Unanimously Passes the Fish
cries Bill.
England Denounced as a Ruffian
Coward and Bully Among the
Nations.


senate ION motion OF Mr.. Edmunds) pro-
ceeded TO the consideration of the senate
bill to authorize the president of the United
States to protect and defend the rights of
American fishing vessels, American fisher
men and American trading and other YES
sells in certain cases. Mr.. HOar suggested
the question OF the words ''Or unjustly
veXed or haraSSed therein by the authorities
thereof" He thought the bi would be
made much safer if it contained that gen
eral phraStology. Mr.. Ingalls, thought
these fishery difficulties must be settled
either by negotiation OF war. This meas
ure was distinctly one of retaliation. 1t
was an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, a
fish for fish, an insult for an insult, q
wrong for wrong. He thoughT it impor-
tant, before the senate was called upon
TO vote. that the committee on
foreign relations should advise the senate
whether the measure was intended to be
pacific or hostile. whether it was in effect,
ali invitation to negotiate or practically a
declaration of war. There was no use in
Disgusting the proposition. There was a
feeling of irritation (the real party in inter-
est being Great Britain and not Canada),
which was at any moment. if the present
attitude was continued, liable to lead to
discomfort which might ripen into eXas-
peratiOn and this into open hostility. 1t
was, therefore, Of very great importance
that. at the threshold. the outset. i'll the
Vestibule, the senate should understand
whether the bill was intended as pacific
or a hostile measure. He quoted some
sentences from the report of the committee
OH foreign relations and remarked that
countries had been inundated with blood on
less provOcation. The conduct of the Do
minion and Of Great Britain according to
this repoTi) was sufficient to warrant q
declaration of war on the part OF the
United States. 1t was a violation not only
Of treaty rights guaranteed by repeated
conyentiOns), but it showed purpose on
the part Of the government of Canada and
OF her majeSty'S government to harraSS and
annoy and
DESTROY AMERICAN FISHING INTERESTS,
simply for the purpose either of private
gain or of some public advantage. 1t ap-
peared to him that, in view Of these grave
allegations. i'll the irritation and discomfort
known to exist between the two countries,
the reporting OF a measure which author
lied the president to enter simply on Il
process of retaliation, was hardly consist
ent with the gravity of the situation. 1t
was DANGEROUS course 10 authorize the
president to continue in the same line OF
conduct and policy, with the inevitable
result either of finally negotiating for the
purpose of settling these questions or else
of going to war in defense of rights under
the treaty of 1878. He thought it would
be better, more in accordance with the dig
nifty of the subject and with the morality
which ought to prevail among nations as
among men, to declare as the conviction OF
the senate that the relations between the
two powers are such as to require negota
tons, and that there should be an authority,
not to issue letters of marque and re-
briSal, but to select a commission tt
consider the subject, and, if possible
to reach some basis of an understanding be-
tween Great Britain, Canada and the
United States in regard to the fisheries.
Mr.. Frye said that MI ingalls, seemed to
forget that Canada was playing the same
role now which she had played twice be-
fore She played it but for one purpose
and that was to secure negotiations for re
ciprOcal treaties, and these reciprocal
treaties had turued out to the disadvantage
of the United States and TO the advantage
of Canada. He believed it his duty tC
group the OuirageS which had been com
mitted by Canada within the last six
months, and then he would let the senate
from Kansas Mr.. Ingalls, say whether o
not he thought the United States ought L
resort at once to negOt ationS. Mr.. Frye
proceeded to particulariZe many of the out
RACES 10 which American fishing vessels hat
been subjected in Canadian waters. Among
them was the case of an American veSSe
which had brought into Canadian por
seventeen shipwrecked Canadian sailors
and had been refused the right to purchas
a barrel of flour to keep the crew from star
walton. he declared the annals of history
even of the Fiji Islands, might be searched
without finding
\ CASE so BRUTAL
and so inhuman. He also quoted the cast
OF the Marion Grimes. an American
schooner, whose dag was hauled down b.
Capt. Quigey, of the Canadian cutie
Terror. All these cases, he said, had bee
brought to the attention of the Births
government. That government knew til
utter inhumanity of these cases, and kneN
that outrages had been committed i'll viola
t1on of law as well as good neignbOrhood
hir. Vest inquired of Mr.. Frye whether i
the case of the hauling down of the Amer
can tia9, the government of Great Brltai
Endorsed that action Of Capt. Quigley. au
whether on the contrary. that government
had not expressly disayowed the act an
apologiZed for it. He read from the reDOl
q note from the English foreign office t
tie Canadian government on the subject
MIR. Ednunds suggested that Cap
Ouigley was still in the government servit
Mr. FRYE quoted from recent statute paSSe
by the Dominion government in still furthe
hostility to American fishermen. and sal
that that legislation had been approved b
the British government. The hope. there
fire that Great Britain would do what wa
fair and Just was destroyed. and it migl
have been known that that would hay
been the result. There was not a line, h
said. in the history of Great Britain for tn
last 300 wears that gave the slightest reaso
TO believe that.
IN THE PURSUIT OF GAIN,
in the pursuit of trade, she would ever pei
mil the right of another to stand in the wa
of her progress. Every one of the cases
had referred TO was in violation of IL
spirit and four out OF FIVE of them were
violation of the letter, of the treaty OF 1915
Every one of them was i'll violation of II
rules of good neighborhood, Of the civiliz
ton of the day, and of the understandh
Of all civilized nations as to the rights
foreign ships in their ports But IL
American people know that the
are 60 600. 900; they know that the
are the richest nation Ofsthe earth. The
know their power, and they would not HI
initiate themselves and do violence TO the
conscious pride by resorting TO little mise
able tricks and outrageS by way OF retali
ton. What the committee OH foreign rel
tiOns sought was that the president vi u
United States should be empowered to clio
the norris of the Tinted States against an